Designing the Flower and Vegetable Plot. Gardening in Australia.

Welcome or welcome back to our little farm here in Australia. We are surrounded by beautiful gum trees and native vegetation and the very cheeky wallabies that keep eating everything. I feel like this season has just been the never-ending story of intense heat. But I have finally started to notice the sun just sitting a little bit lower in the sky during the day which is a good sign. I love these. I need to pick tomatoes but the wallabies have been eating the tomatoes so we're not going to have anything. Come up here tonight and pick that with James. Hi everyone. Today's a bit of an exciting day. I just sort of harvested as much veg as I can and today we're ripping out as much of this garden as we can. I've just got to move the tractor out of the way. I've just plonked it right in the middle of where I need to drive the mower and we're going to start transforming this field. But first I've got to get it cleaned up. I'm hoping that the heat, like we are having insane heat. This is what's the date today? Something like the 14th of March. We're still in the mid-30s like it's 34 today. It's so hot. Like I'm limited with what I can do because I can't put the little plants in yet but it looks like next week things are going to cool down and I might be able to start planting out the cool flowers which would be amazing to get those in the ground. But today I'm just going to focus on cleaning up as much as I can in the field and it's going to start with pulling out excess plants. So let's get into that. I've got these smaller ones so my hat doesn't sit up in the air. Okay we're good. Might leave those on because I'm going to be using the lawn mower. Okay. First job I need to move these crape myrtles. So you saw that I bought those maybe two weeks ago and this intense heat. I've had them sitting out here and it's been too hot. They really needed to be watered a lot more and they're dying so I'm losing all these trees now and that's an expensive loss. So I'm going to pack those in the cart, take them up to the house yard. I'm thinking I can probably drive through there. Put those there so then I can't forget to put them on when I take off again. Okay so the motivator to get this garden set up as quick as possible is to get those trees in and I feel like isn't it funny that that's the motivating factor to save these trees. These are the colorway daisy and apparently locally they're hard to grow so I almost feel bad for ripping all of this out and I'm wondering should I like let the garden club know. I'm thinking maybe I should fill a bucket with small plants and let the garden club know that they can come and get them. I just need to get a bucket. Okay I was just going to rip this garden out and get it done really fast but it's now not going to be very fast. That little thingy I don't think is to hold my Zacateus but it's such a handy little spot to put them because I'm not going to lose it. I think driving along I couldn't leave them there. Actually I think I'd stay. This cart, I'm actually loving this cart. I never thought that I would. I never even thought about it. It's going to save me so much time. I'm pretty impressed with myself. That thing has the best turning circle. I feel like I did amazing. The hardest part was I haven't quite figured out where the level of the bucket is. Mine's not very smooth but I'm not sure how to smooth it out. I might have to do it with a rake and obviously need to remove more rows so I can smooth everything out and get these new beds built. But yeah like I feel like I did amazing. Look at it. It actually looks pretty good. I had to try to maneuver around this tree but I've completely done this area in a day, half a day. So I would say for today, job done. I'm kind of gobsmacked actually. I think I also need it to rain before anything permanent goes in because I've got to see where the water's running because we do have to do the drainage as well. But anyway like first section done. I kind of feel speechless. I've got so much extra energy left over too because I didn't have to do all the walking which is really good.